ILO Regional Director for Africa on official visit to Nigeria
During his first official visit to Nigeria, Aenas C. Chuma, ILO Head for Africa attended the 7th Joint AU-ECA Ministerial Meetings held in Abuja and met the Nigerian tripartite constituents.
1 April 2014
During his first official visit to Nigeria, Aenas C. Chuma, ILO Assistant-Director General and Regional Director for Africa attended the 7th Joint AU-ECA Annual Ministerial Meetings in Abuja and met the Nigerian tripartite constituents as well as representative of UN agencies.
Mr Chuma participated in the AU-UNECA Conference of Ministers of Finance and Economic Planning under the theme “Industrialization for inclusive and transformative development in Africa.” As a key member of the high level panel, he emphasised the need for the education sector to respond to the skills requirements of the labour market by reviewing their curriculum to reflect these demands and providing the required employable training skills. He also highlighted the need for countries to encourage the portability of skills.
Mr. Chuma also paid a courtesy call on the Honourable Minister of Labour and Productivity, Chief Emeka Wogu, CON, at the Federal Secretariat Complex, Abuja. He expressed his gratitude to the Federal Ministry of Labour and Productivity, Nigeria Employers’ Consultative Association, Nigeria Labour Congress and the Trade Union Congress for their continued collaboration and support to the ILO. He reiterated the ILO’s commitment to supporting the Federal Government of Nigeria on the various programmes it is implementing in support of youth employment programmes.
The Regional Director for Africa had a technical working session with the ILO Tripartite partners in Nigeria. Employment creation, social dialogue, improving productivity, capacity building for the partners were discussed. Aenas Chuma pledged the ILO’s continued commitment to supporting the tripartite partners in various ways including the completion of the Decent Work Country Programme for Nigeria, building the capacities of the social partners, employment creation for Nigerian youths, rights at work, social protection and social dialogue.
He also reiterated the need for UN agencies in particular the ILO to work with national training and research institutions such as the Michael Imoudu National Institute for Labour Studies (MINILS) as a means not only for building capacities but also for Africa to have evidence-based development and planning interventions and projections.
Mr. Chuma encouraged the ILO tripartite partners to fully participate in the forthcoming Ouagadougou + 10 summit whose objective was to stock-take on Africa’s achievements and challenges in creation. Furthermore, the summit was being held to consider Africa’s efforts toward achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015 and its position on post 2015 Development Agenda.
The first office of the ILO in Africa was opened in 1959 in Lagos, Nigeria.
For more detailed information, please contact:
Pius Udo, ILO Abuja Country Office [email protected] Tel: + 234-8095995926, 234-8023169359
Mr Chuma participated in the AU-UNECA Conference of Ministers of Finance and Economic Planning under the theme “Industrialization for inclusive and transformative development in Africa.” As a key member of the high level panel, he emphasised the need for the education sector to respond to the skills requirements of the labour market by reviewing their curriculum to reflect these demands and providing the required employable training skills. He also highlighted the need for countries to encourage the portability of skills.
Mr. Chuma also paid a courtesy call on the Honourable Minister of Labour and Productivity, Chief Emeka Wogu, CON, at the Federal Secretariat Complex, Abuja. He expressed his gratitude to the Federal Ministry of Labour and Productivity, Nigeria Employers’ Consultative Association, Nigeria Labour Congress and the Trade Union Congress for their continued collaboration and support to the ILO. He reiterated the ILO’s commitment to supporting the Federal Government of Nigeria on the various programmes it is implementing in support of youth employment programmes.
The Regional Director for Africa had a technical working session with the ILO Tripartite partners in Nigeria. Employment creation, social dialogue, improving productivity, capacity building for the partners were discussed. Aenas Chuma pledged the ILO’s continued commitment to supporting the tripartite partners in various ways including the completion of the Decent Work Country Programme for Nigeria, building the capacities of the social partners, employment creation for Nigerian youths, rights at work, social protection and social dialogue.
He also reiterated the need for UN agencies in particular the ILO to work with national training and research institutions such as the Michael Imoudu National Institute for Labour Studies (MINILS) as a means not only for building capacities but also for Africa to have evidence-based development and planning interventions and projections.
Mr. Chuma encouraged the ILO tripartite partners to fully participate in the forthcoming Ouagadougou + 10 summit whose objective was to stock-take on Africa’s achievements and challenges in creation. Furthermore, the summit was being held to consider Africa’s efforts toward achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015 and its position on post 2015 Development Agenda.
The first office of the ILO in Africa was opened in 1959 in Lagos, Nigeria.
For more detailed information, please contact:
Pius Udo, ILO Abuja Country Office [email protected] Tel: + 234-8095995926, 234-8023169359